Kenneth G. Elzinga famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

  • Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

  • Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

  • Love, honor, and negotiate.

  • If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

  • God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

  • I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

  • Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

  • Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

  • I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.